Comments on: Fear of Failure? Here’s How to Get Through It…

By: Online Diploma

Online Diploma — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:07:00 +0000

Not use of fear or failure. The life is not short. Think a large and be passion with cool mind. Attitude is success to the life.

By: Ryan Cruz

Ryan Cruz — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:57:46 +0000

This is a great post! It has a lot of good points in it.

By: GED Online

GED Online — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:31:45 +0000

Your post have the information that is help full and very informative. I would like you to keep up the good work.
You know how to make your post understandable for most of the people.
Thumbs up and Thanks.

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:21:57 +0000

Erica, great idea to have a quest post. It can sometimes be a challenge for us to come up with something to post. To me other opinions and ideas can promote our blog. Thanks for letting me know about this great resource!!!

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:34:23 +0000

The occasional guest post is always great as it can adds on new opinion.

Cheers,
Vincent

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:12:24 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. It’s very topical for us considering we are just beginning a new business venture. My wife will be the person managing it and so I made sure she we print a copy of this and keep it for easy reference. In particular, the part about the ‘negative influencers’ makes great sense to us…you won’t believe just how many of them we are sorrounded with! Thanks, Flexo & Erica!

By: Mrs. Money

Mrs. Money — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:47:11 +0000

Sometimes I think that if I have a bad attitude, that it makes everything seem worse. I’ve learned that a lot of the way I feel comes from how I perceive things and how I handle difficult situations. I’m trying to learn to relax and not let things bother me so much. It’s been working pretty well!

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:33 +0000

This is an AWESOME & totally inspirational blog post. You are very right about being able to be flexible and looking at things more as learning experiences than as worthless or failures. Thanks this is encouraging and I am sure will help many who read it deal with their fear and fly farther because of it.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:05:15 +0000

It takes some experience to fail well, which is why it’s very dangerous to teach people to avoid failure. Now that I’ve realized that an overwhelming majority of people who do interesting things are quick to move on and adjusted my perspective accordingly, I know I’m not trying hard enough if everything I do works the first time.

Last year I was just starting with my first employee, and I thought I knew how to assign tasks that would be profitable for me and grow my business throughout the year. Through a combination of me learning to manage well and not recognizing can’t be changed, it ended up costing me $10,000 in one year instead (and two of the clients that employee worked with decided to leave, but they always did act strangely). But I’ve learned quite a bit, tried many alternatives, and ended up making a set of changes that are likely to double my income or more this year. That’s nothing more than an investment

RevTrev: local business networking organizations might be a good place to meet up with like-minded people, but just reading blogs like this has influenced me. Two other good ones are Ramit Sethi and Seth Godin’s blogs.

By: Ken Siew

Ken Siew — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:12:02 +0000

I totally agree with Flexo’s points. Nobody likes failures (whether you define them as opportunities or defeat). Not me, not you. But we know that we gotta go through all the failures before we can finally strike it. And a success will become much more valuable if you fail 100 times before that.

Also, it’s important to realize that you fail not because you’re incompetent, but because you set a goal in the first place! And that’s the first step towards success. I always tell myself to think where I was 6 months ago, specifically regarding my blog, and where I am right now. It’s a huge difference if you think about the details. I’d feel much more motivated to keep going.

Sometimes we lose sight of the small successes along the way, and get trapped in the small failures. That’s not healthy and would make us give up easily.

By the way, I’d like to see more guest posts, even though I still love Erica’s stuffs. Besides, it goes in line with your Guest Post Secrets

Thanks for the wonderful post Flexo. Enjoy your tour!